Summer-a time when the urge to explore places familiar and new beckons to young and old alike. Although the sun sets late during the summer months, we inevitably find ourselves outside looking at ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from reaching places where we can detect it.

Space is home to a great many oddities, and even chemistry gets strange out there. In fact, there are even some molecules ...

The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and space ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...

The system was installed on the side of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module on the ISS. From there, the rig of 4K ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

SpaceTV-1, a set of Ultra High Definition 4k cameras from space streaming company Sen, was delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) last year, and is now broadcasting live views of Earth and ...